Endurance

I’ve got a lot going on right now both personally and professionally. I guess you could say at times I experience stress on steroids. At times it can be overwhelming, it can seem never-ending, it can seem to be everything. Still I know that the things that I am going through are nothing, even mild compared to some. I think at times we all go through these stress-filled trials. It is just part of the recipe of life in a broken world. I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that during these times we all need a little something called endurance. 

Endurance is the ability to withstand; to sustain; to embrace challenges; working hard without stopping (or giving up) in the face of challenging and difficult circumstances. As Christians we have a place to turn in these times, we have an example in Christ who endured all for each of us, so that we have the promise of all eternity, resting in His mighty arms, loved as only he can love.

In Colossians we are reminded that as Christians we are; “strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience” and that through Christ we have been already and completely qualified “to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” 

Oh my, through Christ, through our faith we can patiently endure strengthened by our great God. I read somewhere that “endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” 

That is my hope and prayer for us all that we will be strengthened, that we will patiently endure all for the Glory of God. 

Press on!

Grace and Peace!